Table of Contents

2009 Spring

Crimes & Punishments

Introductory

• Crime Scenes: by Lewis H. Lapham

Voices in Time

The Perp

• Ha Jin Stages an Investigation: 1999 / Muji City
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky Writes a Confession: c. 1865 / St. Petersburg
• The Greedy Love of Doing Wrong: c. 370 / Hippo
• False Face, False Heart: c. 1040 / Inverness
• Crime Pays: c. 1170 BC / Egypt
• Carl Warburton's Wallet: 1956 / Shady Hill
• Lazarillo de Tormes Loses His Fear of Sin: 1554 / Toledo
• The Needle Gives Because the Camel Can't: 1936 / St. Louis
• From the Grassy Knoll: 1963 / Dallas
• Campaign Promises: c. 63 BC / Rome
• The Perfect Murder: 1823 / London
• News in Brief: 1906 / Paris
• Waldo's Last Move: 1938 / Los Angeles
• The Making of a Criminal: 1960 / San Quentin
• Red Ink: 1888 / London
• Malcolm X Works the Street: c. 1943 / Harlem
• Jenny Diver in Change Alley: c. 1730 / London
• Wizardry: c. 940 / Weizhou
• Burning Down the House: 1967 / Newark
• Something is Rotten in the Agora: c. 228 / Naukratis
• House Call: 1970 / Encino
• Hearts of Darkness: c. 1934 / Barcelona
• Giving the Devil His Due: 1870 / San Francisco
• Jail Talk: 1976 / Draper
• All's Well That Ends Well: c. 750 BC / Rome
• Great Train Robbery: 1953 / New York City
• Order of Mischief: 1651 / Paris

The Plea

• Simple Solution: 1998 / Chicago
• Victor Hugo Raises a Reasonable Doubt: 1832 / Paris
• Herman Melville Forestalls a Mutiny: 1797 / Mediterranean Sea
• First to Fall: c. 442 BC / Athens
• Hannah Arendt Passes Judgment: 1961 / Jerusalem
• Manifesto: 1794 / Paris
• Conflict Resolution: 1917 / Arabia
• Heresy: 1633 / Rome
• Socrates Asks a Last Question: 399 BC / Athens
• Left or Right: 1944 / Auschwitz
• Following Orders: 1865 / Washington, D.C.
• Martin Luther King Jr. Lances a Pus-Flowing Boil: 1963 / Birmingham
• No Extraordinary Villain: c. 1899 / Yasnaya Polyana
• Root of Crime: c. 1330 / Kyoto
• G. K. Chesteron Empanels a Jury: 1909 / Battersea
• Born Crooked: 1876 / Pavia
• Miles Davis Doesn't Move: 1959 / New York City
• Shirley Jackson Casts the First Stone: 1948 / Smalltown, U.S.A.
• Pétér Nádas Reviews a Tyrannicide: 1989 / Târgoviste
• The Hour of Doom: c. 632 / Arabia

The Penalty

• Dexter Filkins Sees the World Made Flesh: 1998 / Kabul
• Enemy of the State: 1597 / London
• Franz Kafka Translates a Text: 1914 / Penal Colony
• Nathaniel Hawthorne Withholds Redemption: c. 1650 / Boston
• Sops for Cerberus: 1775 / London
• No Sound: c. 1937 / Leningrad
• Hogs in a Wallow: 1928 / Baltimore
• First Blood: c. 1721 / Bossey
• Sign on the Cross: c. 30 / Golgotha
• Making Honorable Amends: 1757 / Paris
• George Orwell Shares a Laugh: c. 1925 / Burma
• Pastoral: 1939 / New York City
• Stones of Silence: 1975 / Ireland
• Exterminating the Riffraff: c. 1368 / Nanking
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Remembers a First Love: c. 1945 / Moscow
• Setting the Crooked Straight: 1577 / London
• A Savage Emperor: c. 25 / Rome
• A Chance Is a Chance: 1938 / Outer Mongolia
• Child Care: 1693 / London
• Paper, Any Paper: 1978 / Kenya
• Rules of the Road: 1189 / England
• Last Meal: c. 1700 / Ácoma
• Rigor of Death: 1890 / Auburn
• Hung Like Doves: c. 1174 BC / Ithaca
• Going East: 1939 / Siberia
• Deliverance: 1594 / Verona
• Nemesis: 8 / Rome
• Jack Henry Abbott Sits in Darkness and a Sewer: 1980 / Salt Lake City

Departments

Essays

• Staking a Life: by Christopher Hitchens
• Murder in Black & White: by Nathaniel Rich
• Hostile Takeovers: by Matthew Power
• From the Drawing Room to the Gutter: by Charles Taylor

Conversations

• Friedrich Nietzsche & Clarence Darrow: Guilty or Innocent?

Letters

What If...?

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